As he lay down to sleep one more time in this strange house, he felt bittersweet, but also still angry… Jeremiah was sitting in his grandmother’s chair. He loved that chair! it brought him good memories of a loving nan he’d lost so long ago. It felt like an eternity and it still hurt so […]
Jeremiah’s dreams were pretty strange most of the time. He preferred to daydream, he could control those a bit more. Last night he had an incredible experience with the second room, and he couldn’t shake it off. He fell asleep out of exhaustion, and woke up a few hours later, sweating and searching for answers. […]
I never cease to marvel at my dreams and the dreams that I’ve heard from clients through the years. As I recounted in another post, a recurring dreams, and a therapy process, led me to make the link between the topic I discussed in therapy and the sudden disappearance of these recurring dreams. Through my […]
Jeremiah was sitting on that bench. That same bench he’d sat on every day after school. It wasn’t a favourite spot. Not at all. It was just somewhere to pass time before going back to the place where everything he did was wrong. Sitting on this bench, he could imagine that he did everything right. […]
This course is for you if you want to work on your life and relationships, by creating more compassion for yourself and others. Whether you’re new to counselling/psychotherapy, or wanting to engage with it again, but unsure where to start, these booklets will help you get started. This is one of a series. Enjoy and […]
As I stated in my previous post, What’s in a dream? (The power of therapy), my experience of a recurring dream I’d had for years suddenly stopping after a few weeks of therapeutic discussion with my analyst about a very specific topic, led me to be even more fascinated by dream work. I was already enthralled […]
What is in a dream? That is the question that I pose to you today. Not as a random question, but as one that would trigger your thoughts and lead you to delve into the exploration of the meaning of dreams and how this relates to therapy and therefore to the unconscious. My counselling training […]
Wow! What a year it has been! Some good has come of it, although I know that many things that could have gone wrong in 2020 have done so. But let’s focus on moving forward.
Welcome to this third and final installment of Gill Bentham’s guest posts – for now. I hope you’re enjoying them so far! Let’s see what Gill has in store for us next… Meet our Genius who overcame Madness I knew that for our discussion about this knot, the guest genius I had in mind had […]
In her dreams, she’d usually wake up in her bed, mid-morning, feeling rested and hopeful for the day ahead. This time waking up felt different. The calm before the storm. Usually the noises outside were of cars rushing past, or children chattering away, as they walked with their mothers towards the local school. She didn’t […]